Target employees shared 4 of their worst horror stories - and it will make you appreciate how hard their job is

Four Target team members from Minnesota, Texas, Georgia, and North Carolina told Business Insider about exchanges with shoppers that became heated and profane.

"I've had many people come in and just scream and yell at anyone they can to get their way," the North Carolina-based employee told Business Insider.

The team member from Texas told Business Insider that they had witnessed a customer hurling homophobic slurs at a fellow employee.

And the harassment isn't limited to store employees. A Georgia-based Target team member told Business Insider about seeing a customer harass another customer for speaking a language other than English on the phone.

The employee said they were also once confronted by an angry, screaming shopper after they closed down their lane.

"It was the only time I've raised my voice at a guest," they told Business Insider. "That experience really stuck with me for a while. It just makes you feel horrible to have to deal with that."

Three Target team members discussed seeing shoppers leave trash and discarded products all around the store.

A California-based employee described "the annoying amount of empty Starbucks coffee cups that 'guests' leave on the shelves when they've finished drinking."

Another Target employee in Colorado said they once watched a man pick up a weight "pump it once, and try to put it back on the shelf and fail before leaving it on the ground."

Accidents happen. And sometimes, those accidents happen in Target.

A total of eight Target employees told Business Insider that they've seen guests — or customers' dogs — defecate, urinate, or vomit in the store.

"Once someone smeared poop all over the wall leading to and from the restrooms," an employee from California told Business Insider.

Another Target team member told Business Insider that a customer once brought her sick daughter on a shopping trip, only for the girl to vomit all over the store.

"Half of our staff that were there called out the next day," the employee told Business Insider. "They caught the flu from the contaminated vomit."

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